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Experts ponder huge Hikurangi trench earthquake and tsunami hitting Gisborne stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SCOUT/SUPPLIED A precious gem of a coastal town. First, there’s the compact main street, with its shops and cafés and council building shaped like a cray pot. Follow the road past the curving beach and stick with it for a few minutes as you pass a historic pink cottage, the remnants of old whaling stations and finally come to a carpark overlooking a seal colony at the tip of the Kaikōura peninsula. Yes, it’s a peninsula. I mean, who knew? SCOUT/SUPPLIED Maui, about to go fishing. Not me – until 2017, that is, when I made my first dedicated trip to this precious gem of a coastal town (population 2400) and discovered that Māori legend has Māui using the peninsula as a foothold to brace himself as he pulled the North Island out of the ocean. So without Kaikōura, Auckland could be just another suburb of Hobart. In which case, it’s a big old ngā mihi, Māui. Or kā mihi, as they say down here. ....
reconstructed from sub-ice shelf and offshore sediments J.A. Smith; C.-D. Hillenbrand; C. Subt; B.E. Rosenheim; T. Frederichs . Abstract: Because ice shelves respond to climatic forcing over a range of time scales, from years to millennia, an understanding of their long-term history is critically needed for predicting their future evolution. We present the first detailed reconstruction of the Larsen C Ice Shelf (LCIS), eastern Antarctic Peninsula (AP), based on data from sediment cores recovered from below and in front of the ice shelf. Sedimentologic and chronologic information reveals that the grounding line (GL) of an expanded AP ice sheet had started its retreat from the midshelf prior to 17.7 ± 0.53 ....
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